69. Counting
Yu Mingyi took Ah Hao's letter, and was ecstatic at first, and immediately asked people to inform Geng Qiu, but when he read the letter, he didn't say anything for a long time, and his face was very ugly.
He never expected that he would receive such a letter, and he knew very well that if King Ping's people could send this letter to him, they must have sent letters to some officials in the court and the noble family. The problem now is that if you don't agree, you will feel ashamed and don't say it, and you are afraid that King Ping will settle accounts after the autumn. But if you say yes, it is extremely difficult to do. I don't want a foolproof solution, who dares to act rashly. It's a head-wrenching job.
"What's going on?" Geng Qiu asked hurriedly, he hurried over, and was startled when he saw Yu Mingyi like this.
"Alas, Ah Hao is very good, but I'm afraid it's not very good in the court." Yu Mingyi sighed and handed the letter in his hand to Geng Qiu.
In fact, it's not just Yu Mingyi who has a headache, many people in Beijing have a headache. Now the ministers of the DPRK and China are divided into two factions, one faction is the main war, the concept of the king of peace and others is the same, and the other faction is the main peace, because the war in the north has brought a very bad impact to the entire Daqing Dynasty, and the soldiers are constantly replenished, grain and grass, where can they afford it. At present, all localities in the DPRK and China are really unable to draw soldiers, but this year several grain-producing areas have suffered natural disasters of various sizes, and the harvest is not good. And the north is a poor place for the whole country, and the geographical environment is not very good, so they think it is better to survive by cutting off their tails.
Each has its own reason, and you can't convince me, and I can't convince you. Every day, as soon as he goes to the court, he will fight with each other, which makes the old emperor, who is already a little confused, more and more eccentric, he seems to have lost his mind, holding the power in his hands, for fear that his sons will come to rob him, and he wants to indulge in practicing Dan every day, and he wants to live forever. Therefore, today there is a hammer on one side and a hammer on the other side tomorrow, so that the ministers are not afraid of the right bush, so that in recent years, there has been a bit of dirty smoke obstruction.
The old emperor, who has been in power for more than 40 years, has been a little happy before, but he can barely be regarded as a Ming Jun, but as soon as he is over fifty years old, he somehow begins to be left-handed. In recent years, he has been even more greedy and most afraid of others saying that he is old, so he is extremely taboo against his young sons. The first prince probably died under his suspicion. Later, he set up five sons as the crown prince, but it was only because his mother was always more favored, and the fifth son of the emperor was not a very capable son.
He clearly knew that the second and third sons were good, but he wanted to hold on to his power more, so he made his fifth son the crown prince. On the contrary, he has been suppressing the second and third sons. The second son is King Ping, and King Ping simply turned his power underground because he understood the emperor's thoughts, and spent all his time drinking and drinking on the surface, greedy for pleasure, and not doing his job. The third son, was named King An, Prince An is three years younger than Prince Ping, and his heart is not less than King Ping, so he chose a similar path to King Ping, but he loves to tease birds the most, and all his thoughts are spent on fighting birds.
After the death of the crown prince, the only adult sons of the emperor were King Ping and King An. The two of them are like this again, the old emperor has only been stable for a few years, and the court and the central government have been safe and sound, until the death of the first general who protects the country, which made the government and the opposition oscillate again. And this time, it was the fifth son of the emperor who was made the crown prince. Then the scenery is infinite, but no one expected that in just three or five years, the Northern Barbarians would be able to capture Beiliang in one fell swoop and capture several cities in a row. As a last resort, the old emperor had to use King Ping again.
Since King Ping became the general of the Northern Expedition, he had to plan for himself.
The above are the major events of the DPRK and China that Zhou Daren clarified for Yu Mingyi. Although Yu Mingyi picked up a baron for nothing, his heart is not above being an official and making a fortune, he loves to do learning, and he manages the Beixian County School very well, and his duty as a teacher is quite good. He just thought about teaching a few more students and accumulating some contacts for Ah Wan. But now that King Ping's rake hit him on the head, he really had a headache.
"Then are you the main battle or the main peace?" Yu Mingyi saw that he said such a big thing, and asked impatiently.
"Well, why are you still like this?" When Lord Zhou met him, he only had a wry smile. In recent years, the relationship between the two husband and wife has been much better, but Mr. Zhou is an old fritter and has always spoken ambiguously and vaguely. Only in front of him did he say a few sincere words, but Yu Mingyi was impatient to talk to him.
"Come on, it's crooked, you're not tired, I'm tired." Yu Mingyi hurriedly interrupted him again.
"The main battle." This time, Lord Zhou only said two words.
"Why?" Yu Mingyi asked.
"If the Lord is peaceful, I'm afraid that Nanban will do the same."
"Could it be that the Southern Barbarians are also ready to move?" Yu Mingyi asked in surprise. Now everyone is focused on the Northern Barbarian War, and they have forgotten that there is also a Southern Barbarian who is not at ease.
"Although it is very stable at the moment, if the land is ceded to the northern barbarians, I am afraid that the southern barbarians will also be tempted." Lord Zhou sighed.
This simple truth, he doesn't believe that those people who are in harmony don't know, but these people are short-sighted, and they think that the southern barbarians are not worth mentioning. Don't you know, what the Northern Barbarians can do, how can the Southern Barbarians not, and the Southern Barbarians have more advantages than the Northern Barbarians, although the Southern Barbarians are close to the sea and have many mountains and few fields, but there is basically no winter in the land of the Southern Barbarians, and the crops can be planted all year round, and the output is much better than that of the Northern Barbarians, and they can be stable all these years, but because people don't need to come to loot.
"It seems that you are also optimistic about King Ping. What kind of bastards are the DPRK and China, thinking about peace all day long. Yu Mingyi said. He has a bottom in his heart, and he must also prepare. For these guys who retreat without a fight, he also looks down on them in his heart.
King Ping put the burden on Yu Mingyi's shoulders, but he didn't expect him alone, because everyone knew that Yu Mingyi also had a Zhou Qilin, the two were husband and wife, and he was a third-grade official, but he was a local official with real power.
"You don't have to worry about the rest, just do what King Ping said." Zhou said. Anyway, now that he and Yu Mingyi are one, and he himself is the main battle faction, he will definitely support King Ping. Among these princes, he was optimistic about King Ping from the beginning. Although King Ping has been silent for ten years, he has always remembered how high-spirited King Ping was back then, and he was able to retreat bravely, which shows that he is a master who can advance and retreat, and has his own plans in his heart.
Prince An, although he is also very good, but he has one less military merit than King Ping, and King Ping is older, so he also has the advantage. In fact, before King Ping's letter arrived, King An had already been angry with Lord Zhou's son, but he was beaten Tai Chi by Lord Zhou. From the beginning of the war, the crown prince lost one after another, and several princes with some ability were all trying to win over the ministers of the court. Lord Zhou, because Yu Mingyi has long become a fragrant sweet. Therefore, Yu Mingyi and Zhou Qilin, the husband and wife, are now fundamental to each other.
From this point, it can be seen that the difference between King An and King Ping is that King Ping is through guò Yu Mingyi to move Zhou Qilin, while King An is through guò Zhou Qilin to pull Yu Mingyi. For the time being, the husband and wife have their own uses, and they rely on each other. It can be said that there are still great benefits to having their support.
Just when Yu Mingyi was thinking hard about how to use his advantages to build momentum for the main battle faction, letters sent to all parts of the country reached the recipients one after another. At the same time, Geng Qiu also received a letter sent to him by A Hao.
All the letters do not have gorgeous words, and the vigorous and agitated fighting is completely used in the technique of white drawing, and the first battle is a victory made of white bones. At the same time, the letter also told what kind of hell the place occupied by the Northern Barbarians was a hell on earth, where the Northern Barbarians passed, burned, killed and looted, the common people were killed and wounded, and the number of dead people in the land lost by the Daqing Dynasty reached 300,000. And the people who survived were still fighting tenaciously, fighting to the death with the Northern Barbarians, in order to keep the land of the Daqing Dynasty. At the same time, the letter also expressed his thoughts about his relatives and his belief that he was not afraid of death, hoping to win the battle as soon as possible and return home to reunite with his relatives as soon as possible.
Such letters spread through the mouths of those who read them, and soon became household names. Coupled with Yu Mingyi's leading vibrating pen and shouting, soon, the call of the main battle swept through the entire Daqing Dynasty like a fire. As for those ministers who want to talk about peace, they don't even dare to go out of their homes, and as soon as they go out, they will be smashed by rotten vegetables and rotten eggs, and their faces will be swollen, and even their families will not dare to go out, and as soon as they go out, they will be watched by people, scolded for being greedy for life and afraid of death.
Not only that, many literati students also organized rallies and marches, strongly demanding that they fight to the death against the Northern Barbarians. He began to collect grain and grass among the people, and found large families to donate money and materials, bent on giving the best support to the soldiers at the border gates. In this atmosphere, the imperial court had to go all out to promote the bloody war to the end. Even the song sung by the Fengyue woman has become a stirring battle song.
Then, the imperial court began to recruit strong men in the people, and many people bravely signed up, and there was no need to force it, and soon gathered a group of young and middle-aged people, with grain and grass collected from all over the country, ready to go to Jeju Province, and fully supported King Ping to find a war...... Among them, there was a team of about 100 people from Beixian County, Zeng Changan also went, and they also brought 10,000 catties of grain donated by the Yu family and the Zeng family.
In order to prevent the Nanban from stirring up trouble, the imperial court also strengthened, and the border management of Nanban and Daqing was even sent to the garrison of Nanyi City. There were already tens of thousands of people stationed there, and a lot of fresh blood was added. made the southern barbarians, who were originally ready to move, quickly endure it. They are also waiting, if the Northern Barbarians win, they will take the opportunity to go up, if the Northern Barbarians lose, they are slowly observing, anyway, after so many years, everyone has been safe.